4. What are some of the weaknesses of tagging for
making content more findable?
I
believe that the biggest weakness of tagging is the lack of structure or
consistence especially with folksonomy tagging.
This type of tagging is based on what a specific person finds to be the
most relevant term or terms to describe an item. Since tagging through folksonomy is based on what
a person thinks and not on a standardized system like taxonomies it can be harder
to find an item of interest. This means
that to find specific content or an item a person searching would need to know
the exact term(s) that one used while tagging their items. Overall, tagging is not as reliable of a way
to finding content as some people would think.
Even
though tagging is not as reliable as one may want, it is still a great tool to
have because it does allow people to find some of the relevant information that
they are looking to access. One may not
find every relevant item that they are looking for but they will have located
some items that may help them learn more about a subject. Thus, I believe that tagging is useful, but
could be improved to help one find more of the content that they are looking
for.
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